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Download fileSustaining point-of-use (POU) water quality interventions in Ghana: the behavioural perspective
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Sumaila S. Saaka, Lonna B. ShafritzIn Ghana, diarrhoeal diseases continue to be a major cause of under-five morbidity and mortality, mainly
due to faecally-contaminated household water and unhygienic practices. Although the West Africa Water
Initiative (WAWI) partnership has attained remarkable success in drilling boreholes and providing alternative
improved water sources in intervention communities in the Northern Region, promoting household water
treatment and safe storage products and technologies alongside is a cost effective alternative to reducing
diarrhoeal and other water-related diseases. This paper outlines the behaviour change perspective for
implementing household safe water treatment and storage technologies, based on a literature review. The
review highlights the health benefits of point-of-use water products, sources of water supply in WAWI intervention
communities, current water treatment and storage practices, the facilitating factors and obstacles
to behaviour change.
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